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Arrian of Nicomedia · Periplus of the Euxine Sea (c. AD 131)
A Report to the Emperor
A real governor's dispatch to Hadrian — our model for the "commission" that sends Demetrios to the edge of the world.
The key insight
A real report ran on two channels: a formal Latin dispatch for the hard military facts, and an elegant Greek letter — personal, learned, loyal — for the emperor himself. Arrian twice defers the operational detail "to the Latin report."
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